I have a drawing app in which I would like to create an undo method. The drawing takes place inside the TouchesMoved: method.
I am trying to create a CGContextRef and push it to the stack OR save it in a context property that can be restored later but am not having any luck. Any advice would be great. Here is what I have ...
UIImageView *drawingSurface;
CGContextRef undoContext;
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.frame.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[drawingSurface.image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, drawingSurface.image.size.width, drawingSurface.image.size.height)];
UIGraphicsPushContext(context);
// also tried but cant figure how to restore it
undoContext = context;
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
}
Then I have a method triggered by my undo button ...
- (IBAction)restoreUndoImage {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.frame.size);
UIGraphicsPopContext();
drawingSurface.image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
}
When I run this, I believe my drawingSurface is being assigned nil because it just erases everything in the image.
My guess is I can't use pop and push this way. But I can't seem to figure out how to just save the context and then push it back onto the drawingSurface. Hmmmm. Any help would be ... well ... helpfull. Thanks in advance -
And, just for reference, here is what I am doing to draw to the screen, which is working great. This is inside my TouchesMoved:
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.frame.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[drawingSurface.image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, drawingSurface.image.size.width, drawingSurface.image.size.height)];
CGContextSetLineCap(context, kCGLineCapRound); //kCGLineCapSquare, kCGLineCapButt, kCGLineCapRound
CGContextSetLineWidth(context, self.brush.size); // for size
CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor (context,[currentColor CGColor]);
CGContextBeginPath(context);
CGContextMoveToPoint(context, lastPoint.x, lastPoint.y);
CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, currentPoint.x, currentPoint.y);
CGContextStrokePath(context);
drawingSurface.image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();